Statutory Instrument 1997 No. 2562

The Professions Supplementary to Medicine (Registration Rules) (Amendment) Order of Council 1997

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1997 No. 2562

PROFESSIONS SUPPLEMENTARY TO MEDICINE

The Professions Supplementary to Medicine (Registration Rules) (Amendment) Order of Council 1997

Made

24th October 1997

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 24th day of October 1997
By the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council
WHEREAS in pursuance of section 2(3) of the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960[1] the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine has made rules entitled "The Registration (Amendment) Rules 1997":

    AND WHEREAS such rules shall not come into force until confirmed by Order of the Privy Council:

    NOW, THEREFORE, Their Lordships, having taken the said rules into consideration, are hereby pleased to confirm the same as set out in the Schedule to this Order.

This Order may be cited as The Professions Supplementary to Medicine (Registration Rules) (Amendment) Order of Council 1997.


N. H. Nicholls
Clerk of the Privy Council


SCHEDULE
THE REGISTRATION (AMENDMENT) RULES 1997

The Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine, in exercise of its powers under section 2 of the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960, and after consultation with all the Boards for the time being established under the said Act, hereby makes the following rules: - 

    1.These rules may be cited as the Registration (Amendment) Rules 1997.

    2.The Registration Rules 1962 (scheduled to the Professions Supplementary to Medicine (Registration Rules) Order of Council 1962[2]), shall be further amended as follows: - 

(i) in rule 16(i), after "30th September 1963" there shall be inserted "the Prosthetists &Orthotists Board before the 30th September 1998";

(ii) in the Schedule, after the entry relating to "orthoptists", the following entries shall be inserted in the columns indicated: - 



(1)	(2)	(3)
1st August	Prosthetists-Orthotists	30th September"

The Common Seal of the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine was hereunto affixed this 2nd day of September 1997 in the presence of

L.S.

Professor B. Edwards
Chairman of the Council

M. D. Hall
Registrar

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This Note is not part of the Order)

The Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960 was extended to the profession of Prosthetist/Orthotist by an Order made under section 10 of that Act in February 1997. As a result it is necessary to amend the 1962 Registration Rules made under the Act so as to include references to registration with the Prosthetists &Orthotists Board established under the Act.

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Notes:

[1] 1960 c.66.back

[2] S.I. 1962/1765; relevant amending rules were approved by S.I. 1967/266, 1986/660 and 1996/2945.back

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